BIB_ID
347065
Accession number
MA 366.100
Creator
Ives, L. Silliman (Levi Silliman), 1797-1867.
Display Date
1828 Dec. 11.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan, before 1901.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 24.8 cm
Notes
Address panel with traces of a seal to "Rev. John H. Hopkins / Pittsburgh / Penn ."
Docketed on verso.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Rev. Hopkins declined the rectorship on December 29th.
Docketed on verso.
Part of a 12-volume collection of Autographs and Manuscripts of Bishops of The Protestant Episcopal Church (MA 364-375). The arrangement of the collection is by Bishops in the order of their consecration and chronological within their portion of the collection. Letters in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Rev. Hopkins declined the rectorship on December 29th.
Provenance
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1901, possibly from the estate of Bishop William Stevens Perry of Iowa.
Summary
Expressing his pleasure at his [Hopkins] election to the rectorship of St. Stephen's Church [New York]; explaining that he had been offered the position and declined it for personal reasons but recommended Hopkins.
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